9. How satisfied are you that your presentation content conveys your messages?
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8 (Very Satisfied)

7

6

5 (Somewhat Satisfied)

4

3

2

1 (Not Satisfied)

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10. How well, in your judgment, does your content speak to the audience’s needs?
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8 (Very Well)

7

6

5 (Somewhat Well)

4

3

2

1 (Not Well)

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11. Do you redo your "company presentations" you are expected to use?
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Yes

No

Sometimes

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12. How much time would you save for each presentation if you did not have to redo your company presentations?
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15 minutes

30 minutes

45 minutes

60 minutes

90 minutes

2 hours

3 hours

8 hours

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13. For salespeople only, do you redo the company presentations you are expected to give?
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No: do not redo

Sometimes redo

Yes: always redo

Make them myself

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14. How much time could you save for each presentation if you knew more about creating effective PowerPoint slides?
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15 minutes

30 minutes

45 minutes

60 minutes

90 minutes

2 hours

3 hours

8 hours

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Depends on the presentation

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15. Does your company give you templates or PowerPoint backgrounds to use?
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Yes

No

Sometimes

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16. How effective (professional looking and easy to use) are they?
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8 (Very effective, I use them)

7

6

5 (Somewhat effective)

4

3 (Not very effective, I have to fix them)

2

1 ( I do not even use them)

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17. Does your company give you specific graphic designs such as arrow images, good-looking tables, creative circles, and comparison charts to use?
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Yes

No

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18. How effective (professional looking and easy to use) are they?
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8 (Very effective, I use them)

7

6

5 (Somewhat effective)

4

3 (Not very effective, I have to fix them)

2

1 (I do not even use them)

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19. Do you know how to use the Slide Master in PowerPoint?
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Yes

No

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20. Do you practice your presentations out loud?
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Always

Sometimes

Never

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21. When you practice your presentations out loud, do you believe it makes a positive difference in your talks?
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Much better

Somewhat better

No better

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22. If you don’t practice out loud, how much better do you believe you would be at engaging your audience and speaking to their needs and interests if you did practice?
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Much better

Somewhat better

No better

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23. If you had presentation slide templates with 20 or more slide design looks (custom imagery, arrows, tables, and graphics), how much time per presentation do you think you could save?
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None

1 hour

2 hours

3 hours

4 hours

5 hours

10 hours

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24. What % of time you spend logically organizing the content?
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Spend no time on this task

Under 10%

10% to 20%

33% to 50%

Over 50%

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25. What % of time you spend creating PowerPoint slides?

Spend no time on this task

Under 10%

10% to 20%

33% to 50%

Over 50%

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26. What % of time you spend practicing out loud?
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Spend no time on this task

Under 10%

10% to 20%

33% to 50%

Over 50%

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27. What two directions could your company take that would help you give presentations that get to the message?
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Give me effective PowerPoint slides to present

Stop changing the amount of time I have to present (Example: Telling me to give a 20-minute talk, then only giving me 10 minutes)

Stop changing the content and slides until the last minute

Stop asking me to present slides that are too detailed for the audience

Let me talk to the key decision makers who will be in the audience

Provide time for me to prepare without having to work very long hours

Other:

Must select at most 2 options.

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28. When you give presentations to people in your company, how necessary do you believe these presentations to be?
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Very necessary

Somewhat necessary

Not necessary

A waste of time

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29. Of the presentations that "you give", what percent do you consider a waste of time?
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0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

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30. Of the presentations that "you listen to", what percent do you consider a waste of time?
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0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

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31. Of the presentations that "you give", what percent do you consider too long?
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0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

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32. Of the presentations that "you listen to", what percent do you consider too long?
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0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

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33. Which one area would you say is the weakest for presenters?
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Content is disorganized with unclear key messages

Slides are too many and too detailed

Presenter is not engaging and focused on audience’s reactions

Presenter does not answer questions concisely to the point

Must select at most 1 options.

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34. What other question would you have asked in this survey?

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35. Would you be interested in asking your audience to complete a presentation survey that provides you with feedback based solely on their responses? Then in turn receive coaching tailored to improving the areas uncovered by the survey?
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Yes

No

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About this Survey

This survey is based on many of the same questions that were used in the same survey done 10 years ago. We hope that the
findings in this current survey will give is an opportunity to compare results with the previous survey, and compile
useful information that will allow us to see trends shaping over the last decade.

This survey was done by Geetesh Bajaj and Claudyne Wilder in 2004 -- and both of them have
teamed up again to organize this new survey

Thank you so much for being part of this survey!

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